Silent Struggle

….and only because I know a few kindred spirits will see this and know how hard it is for me to keep going. How much effort I put forth, how I have to force myself to share it. To have infinite faith in yourself tested time after time, to fall short in the comparison for no reason at all is maddening. The few who hold me in their thoughts make it all bearable, thank you.
2012 Apples

I found a windows codec for my raw files. I'm sure it's been there for a long time but for whatever reason I'm just finding it now,lol. ( here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26829 )
Going through a few old pictures and I came upon these apple pictures. There was only about four of them but I took a couple and tweaked them. Or, if you want to get fancy I used the years of finely honed skill and instinct to draw out the curvaceous lustre of this humble yet magnificent fruit. Haha no, I tweaked them lol :)